Blood-soaked war zone rising in India

Tribal Kuki women protesting during the Home Minister’s visit in Churachandpur, Manipur; the burned remains of the Kuki locality Haokip Veng near Imphal; a map of the location of Manipur, straddling Myanmar. — Photos: ©️2023 The New York Times Company

PEOPLE burned out of their homes by the hundreds. Villages, even refugee camps, raked with gunfire. Men, women and children beaten and set ablaze by angry mobs.

India, the world’s most populous country and home to the fastest-growing major economy, is now also the site of a war zone, as weeks of ethnic violence in the remote northeastern state of Manipur has claimed about 100 lives.